PLOT: Jim Tevis (Brandon deWilde), shortly after arriving in 1856 Arizona from the East, meets up with Mose Carson (Brian Keith), self-proclaimed big brother of legendary frontier scout Kit Carson. According to Mose, Kit learned everything from him and it should really be him that is famous. Mose consoles himself by staying drunk and avoiding Indian fights. Captain Ewell (James Whitmore) is a veteran Indian fighter and Paul Durand (Richard Long) is a misfit soldier and ladies' man. Carson and Ewell take a quick liking to the young Tevis and both agree to make him Mose's junior scout. Together they all wind up in a search for buried treasure with Captain Malcione (Nehemiah Persoff) as the primary villain._Wikipedia

IMDb User Review: Three episodes of varying quality (2021-03-10 by Marlburian): I came across what appear to be the three episodes (or is it just two) of "The Tenderfoot" spliced together (with no input by Walt Disney himself) on uTub. We start off with a small group of inexperienced civilians, including Jim Tevis - "the tenderfoot" - heading for Tucson, only to be ambushed by Apaches (in a novel way that I've never seen before in a Western) and rescued by the US Cavalry.

Back at Fort Buchanan, Jim is taken under the wing of veteran scout Mose Carson (brother of Kit) and is appointed "junior scout". In his next engagement with the Apaches, Jim's pistol won't fire and he becomes detached from the soldiers, finding his way to Tucson and a fist fight with a town rowdy.

In what was possibly the second episode Mose and Jim are part of a small group of civilians rounding up wild horses, including a magnificent white stallion that eludes his hunters - who loose their own mounts to Apaches. Mose and Jim set off on foot for the fort and have a stand-off with several Apaches (probably the best scenes in the series).

The U-Tub offering ends weakly and features a skilled pianist (not that I found his performances at all rewarding) who proves to be a hapless recruit to the US Cavalry and is chucked off an army post by his commanding officer and flees to Mexico, taking the CO's prized horse with him. Mose and Jim are charged with retrieving the horse in what amounts to a light-hearted caper. This episode is the only one that features women, not that they have much if any dialogue.

Two dependables, Brian Keith and James Whitmore, hold the episodes together. And the white stallion is excellent! It's difficult to say in which decade the series is set. I would guess that it's meant to be the 1850s, but the uniforms aren't correct.There were a couple of jarring lapses when it came to night-time sentries. Just two marching up and down the frontage of the fort and none at all when the horse-hunters were camped in hostile territory. The U-Tub program did not include the treasure-hunt featuring Nehemiah Persoff noted on Wikipedia, so I guess that might have been another episode. Certainly what I've described above seemed to have three different segments.

Tevis' Arizona in the 50s, written in 1880 and not published until 1953 and out of print for the last 50 years, was later edited by Betty Barr and Dr. William J. Kelly and re-released._Wikipedia

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